Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, wrote in his letter: article In the newspaper Izvestia about what is the main advantage of the leadership of the USSR and the first leadership of Russia.
In his view, the “most important thing that can be added to the leadership” of the collapsing Soviet Union and its successor, the first president of Russia, is that they did not make the “most dreadful mistake”: they did not allow it to disintegrate. on the newly formed patchwork quilt on the site of a large country with the strongest nuclear potential.
According to Medvedev, the Russian Federation “at the expense of incredible efforts” gradually overcame the most difficult times.
“I had to reckon with myself at the international level, fully paid off the foreign debt and undertook the restoration of the economy and the social sphere,” he said.
Former adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Mykhailo Podolyak declarationThat Russia wants to destroy Ukraine as a state and then revive something like the USSR.